"Male circumcision is one strategy that may help reduce the continued spread of HIV in the U.S".
Background: The incontrovertible evidence in support of adult male circumcision as a strategy for the reduction of HIV transmission means that South Africa has a human rights and ethical duty to develop a national male circumcision policy.
And Helene Gayle, president of the International AIDS Society, which is sponsoring the Rio meeting, notes that only one in five people at risk have access to condoms and other existing prevention strategies, so circumcision may prove to be a powerful new strategy to add to the mix.
Given its low cost and purported effectiveness, policymakers and donors across Africa have started aggressively pushing circumcision as a prevention strategy.
Other interventions, such as PrEP, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), condom and clean-needle use, and medical male circumcision, are also important strategies to prevent infections.
In addition to distributing condoms and sterile needles to prevent transmission, experts are turning to male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommend male circumcision as an additional, important strategy for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men.
The findings suggest that the discussion of circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy within intimate relationships maybe fraught with suspicions of infidelity.
The assumption that reaching the 90-90-90 targendwill end AIDS is based on mathematical models that factor in ARV "coverage" in combination with other proven prevention strategies like male circumcision, condom promotion, and behavior change efforts.
Both Namibia and Botswana used these results to develop and refine national strategies for male circumcision, outlining the target population for the intervention and the pace of the scale-up.
